A new HTC U23 Pro 5G smartphone has been leaked online and is believed to be the latest addition to ‘Viverse’the company’s attempt to create “an open, universal and transparent Metaverse”. Everything points to it being released as a companion device for the Vive Flow VR headset.
HTC was one of the big manufacturers of mobile phones. Like Nokia, Motorola or Blackberry, it could not stand the changes imposed by Apple and later by other Asian manufacturers, ending up selling most of the equipment of its best devices to Google to reinforce the Pixel series. The firm has launched some terminals here and there, but without relevance in the market, until a few months ago it advanced the launch of a “Mobile for the Metaverse”. He may be the one we present to you today.
HTC U23 Pro 5G, dedicated to the Metaverse
The HTC U23 Pro 5G would be the first of the “U” series since 2020. Its general specifications are not going to excite you, with its polycarbonate chassis and a Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 SoC quite overmatched, but that combined with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage should offer at least decent performance.
Better on the screen, an AMOLED of unknown size, and the cameras, with four sensors headed by one of 108 MP. The battery is 4,600 mAh, with fast cable charging through a USB Type-C port and wireless.
With these wickers, it would be right at the gates of the high-end and in the general market we do not believe that it would be capable of recovering the market. But the idea is different, to bring the general public closer to that Metaverse still to be developed. HTC calls it ‘Viverse’, although it’s really no different from what other companies like Facebook or Microsoft promise: a shared virtual world that uses virtual reality, augmented reality, avatars and the Internet.
It should not be mandatory to use a certain mobile, but HTC has become one of the main players in virtual reality devices with the Vive platform and its metaverse mobile is supposed to stand out precisely for this reason: running VR/AR applications. We will see.
